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| 25 Valuable Ukulele Stolen from School |  |  |
"I just wanted to cry when I heard the ukuleles were taken. They're very expensive, especially Kamaka's and to replace them, I just can't imagine being able to replace them all," said Laura Nakasone. "I can’t imagine what kind of people these are to take from children."
Daylie Smith is a fourth grader at the school. She can't play a sad song so instead she's hoping the thieves listen to her letter.
"Dear Perpetrator of Hale Kula, You came to our class and actually robbed us of education. Now we don't have a projector which we use everyday for our education. You have also stolen our ukuleles which we now can't learn how to play," Smith read from her letter.
Thieves left the desktop computers behind but they stole laptops and swiped flat screens televisions right off the wall as well as other high tech teaching tools, but that's not all.
"From a kindergarten classroom they stole a bag of pennies that they were collecting for Pennies for Patients. Obviously you have all these kindergartners who are bringing in their pennies and that's heartbreaking for them and I think they feel very violated," said Agnes Leinau, Hale Kula Vice Principal.
Hale Kula is a public school but it's within Schofield Barracks and just to get to the campus you have to show identification, vehicle registration and insurance at the military checkpoint. Still this is the second break-in at the school in the last two months.
"I don't know if I'm surprised, I've very, very disappointed obviously," said Leinau. "It's just the world we're living in unfortunately."
Maintenance has a handle on the situation and the locks have been changed. But the feeling something is missing will last awhile unless someone spots their stuff. The head of the ukulele is labeled Hale Kula and inside there's a Kamaka sticker that has the school's stamp.
If you see one you're asked to call police or the crooks could have a heart and listen to a nine year old.
"We would really appreciate it if you could bring the things you took back to us. It makes us very sad and angry because of what you took. Sincerely Daylie," said Smith as she continued reading from her letter.
Administrators would like to install security cameras but in this economy that's not going to happen. They did ask military police to patrol more often.
The army is working with Honolulu Police going over lists of people who entered over the weekend.
| Written by Tim Sakahara - tsakahara@kgmb9.com | |
| September 09, 2009 05:55 PM |
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